So long as we know which translation table to use, this is not a problem of course… So values 132 is Ntilde (letter N with a wavy line above in MAC encoding) but quotedblbase (double quotes at bottom of the line) on Windows. Most of the time values are identical (A is value 65 in both MAC and WIN encoding) but certain accented characters have different values. This is because Windows and MAC originally evolved with different character sets and values. Because the PDF file format is ‘multiplatform’, there are several possible sets of Standard Encoding Formats to use for this conversion (ie WinAnsi for Windows, and MacRoman for standard MAC values). Inside a PDF file, all text data is stored as a binary number and this value is decoded into the actual glyph value (ie the value 65 is converted into the text value ‘A’). This is one of these features which is broken but it is now too late to fix. Embedded PDF Truetype fonts are always MAC encoded unless they are not He has an MA in Medieval History and a passion for reading. Mark Stephens Mark has been working with Java and PDF since 1999 and is a big NetBeans fan.
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